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Deep Green Resistance: Strategy To Save The Planet (2011)

by Aric McBay(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1583229299 (ISBN13: 9781583229293)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Seven Stories Press

review 1: The planet may or may not be dying, but if this book is any indication, copy editing has certainly died. As much as I enjoyed reading the same examples repeated ad nauseum, the abuse of logic that characterized much of the text, and the bizarre personal asides, nothing prepared me for Chapter 4. It managed to critique pornography, Jack Kerouac, Romanticism, Nazis, and much more.Edit: And how could I forget the author of Chapter Four critiquing veganism, with the attendant discussion of the quality of her lentil and meat (pasture-raised) chili?Yikes.
review 2: A few pages in and I developed a migraine. What a load of incoherent, jumbled, self-righteous 'we-know-better-how-to-save-the-world than the rest of you guys' hogwash. According to these authors, there is ... moreNO HOPE, so give up now or get out your bombs and guns and fight. "The choice is to fight or to stand with those who fight. Anything else means the world will be left to die." A direct quote from page 220, I kid you not, that sums up the entire premise of this book and the poor quality writing. The quote was used to debunk the Town Transition Movement and "the cloying platitudes or the community confirmation bias of those who think seed swaps are the revolution." Yes, the entire book debunks: the sustainable movement, organic farming, veganism, consensus building, Richard Heinberg and peak oil and other environmental scholars of his ilk, with obnoxious sentences such as quoted above. It is a doomsday book, deliberately attempting to disempower anyone and everyone for trying to live a more low impact sane and just life on Mother Earth, as well as dismantle the entire sustainability movement. They even manage to dis the Black Panther movement, Mahatma Ghandi, all of Cuba, Malcolm X, the Diggers and all utopian societies throughout history, all pornography, pacifism and non violent action, spirituality, beatniks and hippies, etc. There is so much name dropping and negative finger pointing and bizarre paranoiac accusations, your head will spin around on it's axis and eyes pop out. I know mine did. These authors are equal opportunity haters. They hate everyone, but themselves. I will not waste my intellect and time on finishing this trash, as I need to go save some seeds. Haha! I cannot help but wonder what the agenda of these authors really is and whose side they are really on?? Who put them up to this? If they were truly left wing activists and environmentalists; they are now turncoats, narcs or spys attempting to spew hate and cause division and derision within the environmental movement.Read it and weep or get your gun and shoot some seed savers. less

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